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Happy Birthday, Title IX

Jun 23, 2012

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League will
celebrate the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX by
speaking with current and former League administrators, coaches,
students and student-athletes concerning the impact of Title IX and
what they feel is in store for the future.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 states, in part, that
“no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex,
be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be
subjected to discrimination under any education program or
activity.”

Starting on Sunday, June 24, IvyLeagueSports.com will speak to a
different Ivy Leaguer each day to get their thoughts on Title IX
and what it has meant not only to college athletics, but also
society as a whole. Those Ivies will include, among others, former
Ivy League Executive Director Jeff Orleans, who
was part of the group that wrote Title IX, former Cornell
women’s ice hockey player and Brown head coach Digit
Murphy, former Dartmouth women’s basketball player
and current Princeton head coach Courtney Banghart
and Yale graduate and Olympic gold medalist in figure skating
Sarah Hughes.

Moreover, the Women’s Sports Foundation, in collaboration
with espnW and Women in Cable Telecommunications, honored six
former Ivies as part of its “40 for 40” list of women
who impacted society after playing sports in high school or college
during the 40 years of the Title IX era. The honorees were
recognized at an event on June 21 in Washington.

Those luminaries include Alice Gast (Princeton),
the president at Lehigh University, Kirsten
Gillibrand (Dartmouth), U.S. Senator from New York,
Kathy Levinson (Harvard), managing director for
Golden Seeds, Irene Rosenfeld (Cornell), CEO of
Kraft Foods, Jill Vialet (Harvard), founder and
president of Playworks and Meg Whitman
(Princeton), CEO of Hewlett Packard.

For 40 days, starting on Sunday, June 24, check back to
IvyLeagueSports.com to get daily postings and videos of Ivies
discussing Title IX and its impact.